Amphibians have already suffered massive losses as a consequence
of ongoing stressors including disease, habitat loss, pollution
and over-utilization (Stuart et al. 2004). Climate change will
be likely to exacerbate most of these threats and will pose major
new challenges for conservation practitioners in the coming century
(Corn 2005; Blaustein et al. 2010). General guidelines exist
for managing biodiversity under climate change (e.g. Hannah et
al. 2002); however, relatively few empirical case studies examine
the efficacy of practical 'adaptation management' (Heller &
Zavaleta 2009) that might aid in amphibian conservation. Adaptation
management is a term used by natural resource managers to describe
actions to forestall threats to natural systems; it does not
refer to adaptation in an evolutionary sense nor iterative and
corrective decision making in the face of imperfect knowledge.